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WITH THE OLYMPIC qualifying standard, 27-5½ (8.37), unmet by any entrant, yet several projecting as likely qualifiers via the WA… Read More

HEADING INTO THE Olympic Trials, Fairleigh Dickinson senior Salif Mane and Miami’s Russell Robinson, neither of whom projected as a… Read More

WORLD RECORD HOLDER Ryan Crouser entered as somewhat of a mystery. Handicapped by a gimpy ulnar nerve in his right… Read More

ONCE AN OLYMPIAN was not enough for Andrew Evans, the Kentucky alum who competed for 2 more years after Rio… Read More

IN FRIDAY’S QUALIFYING, the big news was the advancement in 2nd-place of Californian Justin Stafford, who PRed at 249-9 (76.12),… Read More

ONE AND DONE. Throwing fourth in the order, Curtis Thompson hit a 272-5 (83.04), his best in two years, on… Read More

WITH FOUR AMERICANS having met the OG standard of 8460, attention focused on which three would get through to make… Read More

FINALLY, SHE WILL be able to call herself an Olympian, three years after the first time she won the Trials… Read More

PLENTY OF ARMCHAIR experts doubted Gabby Thomas in the 200, figuring that the defending USATF champion would find it difficult… Read More

SOME RUED THAT the 400 had no strong favorite with world leader Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone choosing the hurdles. Yet what the… Read More

THE OLYMPIC TRIALS are all about incredible joy and bitter heartbreak, and the women’s 800 (like the women’s steeple in… Read More

NIKKI HILTZ ANTICIPATED a hot 1500 and a barn burner it was. The World Indoor silver medalist knew where the… Read More

WITH PERENNIAL TEAM USA leaders Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs on the DL, the steeple looked ripe for a new… Read More

JUST A FEW MONTHS before the Olympic Trials, Val Constien had no intention of being on the steeplechase start line… Read More

THE ORIGINAL PLAN for 1500 specialist Elle St. Pierre was to skip the 5000, even though she had posted an… Read More

WITH ONLY Weini Kelati having achieved the Olympic standard of 30:40 and a race-time temperature of 79° (26C), it was… Read More

“CHANGING OF THE GUARD.” The phrase itself is a cliché, but there is no more apt description of a Trials… Read More

THIS WAS ONE of the most anticipated events at the Trials, featuring one of track’s most publicized stars, in the… Read More

SEVENTEEN WOMEN STARTED (at 7:31) a minute after the 16 men and the 20K, 20-loop early-Saturday chase around a curvy… Read More

WHILE ALL OF the top-8 jumpers from the T&FN formchart made it to the final, only 6-0 (1.83) was required…. Read More